USING THE FUTURE
Bootcamp
Futures Thinking Training Programs for Organisations
Give your team or organisation the opportunity to work closely together to explore the future and learn how to apply strategic foresight. Reach out now and let us tailor our training programmes to your organisational needs.
Contact senior advisor and futurist Simon Østergaard:
Transform Valuable Foresight Into Actionable Insight
When you decide to actively engage into the same learning experience as your colleagues, the learning outcome automatically becomes "stickier" throughout the organisation. This way, you can integrate foresight and futures thinking into your organisational processes and strategic decision-making.
Hands-on Learning by Experts
All our training programmes are designed by our experts who bring their knowledge and expertise from working daily with strategic foresight and futures-oriented issues. The instructor-led training is built around maximum engagement and actionable, hands-on learning, with the right balance between relevant theory and tangible strategic foresight tools for your professional work.
All training programmes are tailored to your organisational needs.
EXPLORE OUR TRAINING PROGRAMMES
Bootcamp - Using the Future
Futures Thinking and Foresight Fundamentals
Small steps can eventually make a big impact. Our Bootcamp is designed as an inspiring introduction to the fundamentals of futures thinking and foresight, with the aim of cultivating a "futures mindset". This will better enable you to "use the future" to inform decisions made both today and tomorrow.
The bootcamp will provide you with:
- A robust introduction to the practices of futures thinking and foresight, as well as key concepts and approaches from the futures thinking and foresight toolbox
- An increased consciousness of how our understanding of the future guides decisions today
- A better awareness of how cognitive biases and path-dependent thinking can impair our ability to see beyond existing systems and thinking patterns
- The opportunity to build knowledge and cultivate a "futures mindset" for your own futures thinking, which will lower the mental barriers for integrating futures thinking and foresight into your workflow, projects and organisational processes
The Bootcamp can be facilitated live-online or in person as a three to four hour session or a full day. The session consists of a mixture of inspiring presentations, short exercises, and reflections - for up to 30 participants.
Prices starting from EUR 7.000
Course - Applied Strategic Foresight
Bringing Futures Thinking and Foresight into Strategy
This programme unites futures thinking and foresight with strategy and dives deeper into the application of different tools and techniques for better strategy and policy anticipation. It is based on a case relevant to your team and takes participants through both a thorough foresight process and on how to transition from foresight outcomes to strategic and policy action.
The course will provide you with:
- Solid insights into the megatrends that shape the future and how they may affect your organisational environment
- An introduction to the practice of strategic foresight and experience with applying practical tools from the futures thinking and foresight toolbox
- The ability to recognise and make sense of trends and developments, as well as a structured process for understanding dynamics of change influencing your future organisational environment
- The ability to co-create alternative views on the future and frame robust alternative futures with decision-making relevance
- The opportunity to build knowledge and cultivate a "futures mindset" for your own futures thinking
- A deep understanding of how to always connect foresight to strategic purpose in order to operationalise foresight outcomes into actionable strategic and policy action-steps that inspire change
The course is designed to be highly experiential and can be facilitated live-online with multiple three to four hour sessions, or in-person at our location in Copenhagen or at your organisation over the course of two to three days.
Prices starting from EUR 13.500
Bootcamp - Global Megatrends 2030
The Megatrends that will shape the world and our lives in years to come
This programme helps organisations with a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental forces of change known as global Megatrends. These are high-level drivers of change that shape long term development across societies. Megatrend analysis sits at the core of most strategic foresight work since many of the drivers that will shape development in the longer term will emerge from outside of the organisation's operational environment.
The bootcamp will provide you with:
- Solid insights into the Megatrends that shape the future and how they may affect your organisational environment
- Confidence in applying Megatrend analysis in a structured manner to silence the distracting noise of the "here and now" to focus on longer term developments your organisation is confronting
- A strong foundation to deepen and enhance how you and your organisation think over the long term about strategy and deceision-making
- The opportunity to build knowledge and cultivate a "foresight mindset" for your own strategic thinking
The Bootcamp can be facilitated live-online or in person as a three to four hour session or a full day. The session consists of a mixture of inspiring presentations, short exercises, and reflections - for up to 30 participants.
Prices starting from EUR 7.000
Course - Foresight-Driven Innovation
Learn how to develop innovation with future impact
The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies believe in encouraging foresight-driven innovation (FDI) as a catalyst for positive change.
CIFS' approach is to leverage foresight to explore for potential future outcomes. We do so by highlighting ‘friction and opportunity’ spaces for adaptation and growth c/o a view that solutions are best found in a spirit of being curious, adaptive, and collaborative. Of course, we stress that innovation isn’t limited to a purely branding context, but should instead be seen as including areas such as policy, business model, sustainability, technological and social innovation, etc.
End results are intended to be an understanding of strategic consequences, development of appropriate responses, and mobilisation of resources to create actionable change towards a ‘desired future’.
The course will provide you with:
- Leading-edge approaches: Solid insights into the essentials of and leading-edge approaches to innovation.
- Practical examples: Insights into how innovators across multiple sectors succeed by anticipating, observing and leveraging change to identify potential opportunities
- Fostering a culture of innovation: Views on rejuvenating approaches to innovation via radical thought-leadership and fostering a culture of innovation
Format
The programme is facilitated as a full day session at client location.
The programme consists of a mixture of instruction and facilitated group activities and discussions. There will be plenty opportunity for involvement with a strong focus on contextualising and discussing what we have learned.
This training is offered in collaboration with Sean Pillot de Chenecey – a long-time collaborator and UK associated partner with CIFS. His expertise is based on years of ongoing innovation research experience for a range of leading global brands alongside his ongoing University/Business School lecturing. Sean is also an international keynote speaker and a best-selling author on innovation.
Prices starting from 7.000 EUR
Interested in our bootcamps or courses? Contact senior advisor and futurist Simon Østergaard:
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